"Benjamin (Animal Farm) Benjamin is a donkey in George Orwell's novel ""Animal Farm"". He is also the oldest of all the animals (he is alive in the last scene of the novel). He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel, and a number of interpretations have been put forward to which social class he represents as regards to the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. (""Animal Farm"" is an allegory for the evolution of Communism in Russia, with each animal representing a different social class, e.g. Boxer represents the working class.) Benjamin also represents the old people of"
"referring to himself as ""Little Benjamin"". He was a hunchback with a projecting chest, and his arms were as long as his legs. He was a strict vegetarian; he ate only fruits, vegetables, and honey, and drank only milk and water. He did not believe that humans were superior to non-human animals and created his own clothes to boycott the slave-labor industry. He would not wear anything, nor eat anything, made from the loss of animal life or provided by any degree by slave labor. Refusing to participate in what he described in his tracts as a degraded, hypocritical, tyrannical,"
"intelligence was recognized. In Charleston, his father was among the founders of the first Reform congregation in the United States. It developed practices that included shorter services conducted in English rather than in Hebrew. Benjamin was ultimately expelled from that community, as he did not keep the Sabbath. The extent of Judah's religious education is uncertain. The boy's intelligence was noted by others in Charleston, one of whom offered to finance his education. At the age of 14, in 1825, Benjamin entered Yale College, an institution popular among white Southerners; Vice President John C. Calhoun, a South Carolinian, was among"
"the farthest place from the United States, if it takes me to the middle of China."" With one companion, Benjamin travelled south in a poor carriage, pretending to be a Frenchman who spoke no English. He had some gold with him, and left much of it for the support of relatives. He was traveling in the same general direction as the Davis party, but evaded capture whereas Davis was taken by Union troops. Benjamin reached Monticello, Florida, on May 13 to learn Union troops were in nearby Madison. Benjamin decided to continue alone on horseback, east and south along Florida's"
"and refusing to reveal the whereabouts of Benjamin, who was himself a fugitive at that time. Benjamin was noted for ascetic habits from an early age, and in 620, at the age of thirty, he took monastic vows at the monastery of Canopus, Egypt, which had avoided destruction by the Persians due to its isolated location. Benjamin further developed his asceticism in the cenobitic communities which followed the rule of Pachomius. It was at Canopus that Benjamin first met an older monk named Theonas, who presented Benjamin with the ""schema"" or monastic garment. Theonas instructed Benjamin in the virtues of"
"but noted that at the time Benjamin left Yale, he was only 16 years old. After a brief return to Charleston, Benjamin moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. According to Rabbi Bertram W. Korn's volume on that city's Jews, he ""arrived in New Orleans in 1828, with no visible assets other than the wit, charm, omnivorous mind and boundless energy with which he would find his place in the sun"". After working in a mercantile business, he became a clerk for a law firm, where he began to read law, studying as an apprentice. Knowledge of French was important in practicing"
"in Freeport, New York, on Long Island, a self-described ""nice Jewish girl"". According to the Capital Research Center, Benjamin received millions of dollars from trust funds. During her first year at Tufts University, she renamed herself after the Greek mythological character Medea and joined the Students for a Democratic Society. She then dropped out of school and hitchhiked through Europe and Africa, teaching English classes to earn money. She later returned to the United States and received master's degrees in public health from Columbia University and in economics from The New School. Benjamin worked for ten years as an economist"
"world's greatest nations"". Meade questioned whether Benjamin's character can ever be fully understood: Judah P. Benjamin Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced that faith, and was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America. Benjamin was"
"and a circuit preacher. In Abel Stevens History of American Methodism, 1867 Stevens writes, "" He had a temperament deeply mystic and subject to marvelous experiences which baffle all scientific explanation"". Stevens also noted, ""His whole soul seemed pervaded by a certain magnetic power that thrilled his discourses and radiated from his person, drawing, melting and frequently prostrating the stoutest opposers in his congregation. It is probable that no Methodist laborer of his day reclaimed more men from abject vice. He seldom preached without visible results, and his prayers were overwhelming"". He died in Salem, New Jersey, in 1796. Benjamin"
"Benjamin G. Wilkinson Benjamin George Wilkinson (1872–1968) was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, educator, and theologian. He served also as Dean of Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Washington Missionary College (now known as Washington Adventist University) which is located in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Wilkinson is considered one of the originators of the King James Only beliefs. Wilkinson is remembered mainly for a book he wrote in 1930 entitled ""Our Authorized Bible Vindicated,"" in which he claimed that some new versions of the Bible were based on manuscripts with corruptions introduced into the Septuagint by Origen, and manuscripts with"
"rapidly began acquiring knowledge about the Roman Curia and develop connections with various individuals. While in Rome, Louis-Honoré became very ill, and Benjamin promised that, should his brother recover, he'd build a chapel to the Virgin Mary, which he did upon in return. It is the modern Notre-Dame-de-Grâce chapel. Upon his return in 1866 he was appointed to Université Laval's faculty, and soon thereafter got involved in one of numerous controversies that would pit him against Alexis Pelletier, a virulently polemic ultra-montane who would remain one of his staunchest opponents. This first clash was related to Frenchman Jean-Joseph Gaume's crusade"
"that they themselves know not what they write"". These conjectures were not given scholarly weight until 2001, when in an introduction to a reprinting of Meade's biography of Benjamin, Civil War historian William C. Davis acknowledged ""cloaked suggestions that he [Benjamin] was a homosexual"". Within months of his admission to the bar, Benjamin argued his first case before the Supreme Court of Louisiana and won. Still, clients were slow to come in his first years in practice. He had enough free time to compile and publish, with Thomas Slidell, the ""Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Superior Court of"
"in Atlanta peopled with hustlers and eccentrics. There, he occasionally dressed up as a drag queen from a young age. When he was just nine years old he would appear in public wearing woman’s clothing, ""with a towel on my head like Whoopi (Goldberg), going to the Waffle House in a dress"". In New York he found work at the famed club CBGB's, which he described as ""the filthiest place I ever was"". He earned $20 a day, his duties consisted of sweeping up broken glass left by performers and audiences the evening prior. Benjamin was a known character in"
"orphanage in 1954 and got a job engraving tombstones at a funeral home. He lived alone and by this time his interest in religion had become almost an obsession. Traveling the world from 1960–70, he moved back to England in 1971. He took up a job at the International Institute of Paranormal Investigation, and over the next six years wrote at least four books on occult practices in countries he'd visited. He disappeared on 18 June 1978, and still has not been found. The cousin of Benjamin who created the webpage asked anyone who knew anything about his whereabouts to"
"Benjamin Trumbull Benjamin Trumbull (19 December 1735 – 2 February 1820) was an early American historian and preacher. Born in Hebron, Colony of Connecticut, Trumbull graduated from Yale in 1759, and received his theological education under Reverend Eleazer Wheelock, who delivered his ordination sermon in 1760, commending him to the people of North Haven as “not a sensual, sleepy, lazy, dumb dog, that could not bark back.” He continued in that charge for nearly sixty years, his preaching being interrupted only by the Revolution, in which he served both as a volunteer and as chaplain. After the war he published"
"Harry Benjamin Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 – August 24, 1986) was a German-American endocrinologist and sexologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism. Benjamin was born in Berlin, and raised in a German Lutheran home. His mother was German and his father at least part-Jewish in ancestry. After premed education in Berlin and Rostock, he joined a regiment of the Prussian Guard. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1912 in Tübingen for a dissertation on tuberculosis. Sexual medicine interested him, but was not part of his medical studies. In an interview conducted in 1985 he recalled: Benjamin"
"sent to an orphanage. He was smart but very much a loner. Here he took up a fascination with religion and thought of becoming a clergyman. He was never able to settle in with any of the three families that fostered him, and after he turned ten began to experience nightmares. He began to show artistic talent and made many paintings which have since been lost; it is presumed that Benjamin destroyed them himself. His paintings were disturbing to others and when asked what inspired the drawings, he said he painted what he saw in his nightmares. He left the"
"quiet retirement in Long Island. His son went on to become a writer as well as a patent lawyer and physician. Benjamin died, after a brief illness, on September 12, 1864. Edgar Allan Poe had mixed feelings about Benjamin, calling his writing ""lucid, terse, and pungent"" and his character ""witty, often cuttingly sarcastic, but seldom humorous"". Walt Whitman, for a time one of Benjamin's employees and protégés, hated his poetry outright. In the 20th century, Park Benjamin Sr. was virtually forgotten. He is now known only through his shorter poems, of which ""The Old Sexton"" is often anthologized. Park Benjamin"
"does not recommend any particular one. Wilkinson Hall, the main administrative building on Washington Adventist University's campus, is named in Benjamin Wilkinson’s honor. Benjamin G. Wilkinson Benjamin George Wilkinson (1872–1968) was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, educator, and theologian. He served also as Dean of Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Washington Missionary College (now known as Washington Adventist University) which is located in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Wilkinson is considered one of the originators of the King James Only beliefs. Wilkinson is remembered mainly for a book he wrote in 1930 entitled ""Our Authorized Bible Vindicated,"" in which he"
"most renowned orators–the heart-entrancing legends of love and chivalry–the laughter-loving jests of all lands"". In addition to fiction and poetry, it also published foreign news, local gossip, jokes, and New York police reports. In 1840 Benjamin helped to found The New World and after other brief editorial ventures became a lecturer, public reader, and periodical writer. He was sued for libel by James Fenimore Cooper, and was on personal terms with Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. By the time his first son, Park Benjamin Jr., was born, he had settled down to"
"to Judah Benjamin's interment at Père Lachaise Cemetery in the St. Martin family crypt. His grave did not bear his name until 1938, when a plaque was placed by the Paris chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Benjamin was the first U.S. senator to profess the Jewish faith. In 1845, David Yulee, born David Levy, had been sworn in for Florida, but he renounced Judaism and eventually formally converted to Christianity. As an adult, Benjamin was a nonobservant Jew, who was not a member of a synagogue and took no part in communal affairs. He rarely spoke of"
"a tenured university professor in Germany. He also read, at Bloch's suggestion, ""History and Class Consciousness"" (1923) by Georg Lukács. He also met the Latvian Bolshevik and actress Asja Lācis, then residing in Moscow; she became his lover and was a lasting intellectual influence upon him. A year later, in 1925, Benjamin withdrew ""The Origin of German Tragic Drama"" as his possible qualification for the habilitation teaching credential at the University of Frankfurt at Frankfurt am Main, fearing its possible rejection; he was not to be an academic instructor. Working with Franz Hessel (1880–1941) he translated the first volumes of"
"his fellow Quakers by his strident anti-slavery stance, which would often culminate in acts of public protest. He published several pamphlets on social causes during his lifetime, and one book – ""All Slave-keepers that keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates"". Lay was also distinguished by his early concern for the moral treatment of animals, and was an early vegetarian. Benjamin Lay was born in 1682 to Quaker parents in Copford, near Colchester, England. After working as a farmhand and shepherd, then an apprentice glove-maker, Lay ran away to London and became a sailor at age 21; he later returned to"
"Antiquarian Society in 1814. AAS holds original copies of over 40 titles related to, or authored by Trumbull, as well as the manuscript of his ""General History of the United States"" He died in North Haven, Connecticut. Benjamin Trumbull Benjamin Trumbull (19 December 1735 – 2 February 1820) was an early American historian and preacher. Born in Hebron, Colony of Connecticut, Trumbull graduated from Yale in 1759, and received his theological education under Reverend Eleazer Wheelock, who delivered his ordination sermon in 1760, commending him to the people of North Haven as “not a sensual, sleepy, lazy, dumb dog, that"
"his religion publicly, but was not ashamed of it. Some of the stories told of Benjamin that touch on his faith come from Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, who related that Benjamin delivered an address in a San Francisco synagogue on Yom Kippur in 1860, though whether this occurred is open to question as Wise was not there and it was not reported in the city's Jewish newspaper. One quote from Senate debate that remains ""part of the Benjamin legend"", according to Evans, followed an allusion to Moses as a freer of slaves by a Northern senator, hinting that Benjamin was"
"have been characteristic of him to give much credit to Benjamin. Davis, in the midst of postwar business struggles, may have resented Benjamin's success as a barrister, or may have feared that allegations of involvement in Lincoln's assassination would again be made against the two men. Brook concurs that Benjamin's postwar success, that began as Davis lay in prison and other Confederates struggled for survival, may have soured Southerners towards the former secretary, but that anti-Semitism was also likely a factor. ""For the guardians of Confederate memory after Reconstruction, Benjamin became a kind of pet Jew, generally ignored, but then"
"highly influential piece of philosophical and literary criticism. Benjamin compiled the source material for the work that would become ""The Origin of German Tragic Drama"", some 600 quotations from German baroque dramas, in the Berlin State Library in 1923. In the spring of 1924, he flew to Capri and began composing what he hoped would be his Habilitation, the qualification that would allow him to become a university lecturer in Germany. He finished and submitted the work for approval to the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Frankfurt in 1925. The faculty, which included established academics like Max Horkheimer, found"
"in his books. No other reliable references to his life and conversion to Islam are available. A Catholic of the Chaldean rite, David Benjamin received his education in Urmia. He worked there from 1886 to 1889 as a teacher for schools established by the Anglican mission. During this time he was ordained deacon. He left Urmia in 1890 for England, and studied in Mill Hill at the College for Foreign Missions (or ""St. Joseph's College"" established by Herbert Vaughan (1832-1903)). In 1892 Benjamin wrote a series of articles for the English Catholic weekly magazine ""The Tablet"" and other periodicals. After"
"that Benjamin, ""a distinguished stranger"", drew the largest crowds to the courtroom and ""the Senator is making this terribly tedious case interesting"". Benjamin sailed for New York once the case was submitted for decision in early November. The court's ruling, rendered in January 1861, was substantially for the company but, not satisfied, it appealed. It lost the case entirely to an adverse decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, three justices dissenting, the following year. Benjamin was by then a Confederate Cabinet officer, and could not argue the case. His co-counsel filed his brief with the court. By the time Benjamin"
"Benjamin Whichcote Benjamin Whichcote (4 May 1609 – May 1683) was an English Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists. He held that man is the ""child of reason"" and therefore not completely depraved by nature, as Puritans held. He also argued for religious toleration. Whichcote was born at Whichcote Hall in Stoke upon Tern, Shropshire. He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1628, and became a fellow in 1633. In 1637, he was ordained, a deacon and priest at the same time. In 1643, he married and took up priestly duties in"
"establishment of which, in consequence of a confusion in the text of Shahrastani, has been wrongfully attributed to Benjamin, is identified with the Essenes by Abraham Harkavy, who shows that they were called ""The Men of the Caves,"" because they lived in the desert. Benjamin wrote his halakhic works in Hebrew. Benjamin Nahawandi Benjamin Nahawandi or Benjamin ben Moses Nahawandi (; ) was a prominent Persian Jewish scholar of Karaite Judaism. He was claimed to be one of the greatest of the Karaite scholars of the early Middle Ages. The Karaite historian Solomon ben Jeroham regarded him as greater even"
"Torah at Beth Ahabah synagogue in Richmond. However, there is no proof of this, nor does Benjamin's name appear in any surviving record of the Jews of that city. ""But whether or not Benjamin practiced Judaism overtly or contributed to Jewish causes, to the Jews of the South, he was a symbol of a coreligionist who was a man among men"". According to Evans, ""Benjamin survives, as he willed it: a shadowy figure in Civil War history"". Kahn noted that Benjamin ""is epitomized as a foremost orator, lawyer, and statesman, without a peer at the bars of two of the"
"Eli Evans, Benjamin's biographer, does not believe that the argument in the ""Creole"" case represented Benjamin's personal view; rather, he was an advocate for his clients in an era when it was usual to write dramatically to distract attention from the weaker points of a case. Evans finds it remarkable and a testament to Benjamin that he could be elected to office in antebellum Louisiana, a slave society, after writing such words. Benjamin was a supporter of the Whig Party from the time of its formation in the early 1830s. He became increasingly involved in the party, and in 1841"